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CARD GAME.

APPLICATION FILED MY 25, 19H3.

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CARD GAME.

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UNITED STATES PATENT y oiFICE.

CHARLES H. BRADSHAW, or BATTLE CREEK,v MICHIGAN."-

specification of Letter'slratent.

Application led Mayv25, 1918. y Serial No. 236,576. i Y i To all ywhom it may concern:

Be it knowny that I, CHARLES ing at Battle Creek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented able others skilled inthe art to which it;`

appertains to make Aand use the same.

The object of the invention is to provide an entertaining and instructive card game apparatus based upon the operations and.

equipment of land and naval or military and `marine forces and equipment with a View to indicating and to a degree emphasizing the` relative or comparative values of forces of dierentsizes and characters and equipment` of different kinds, offensive and defensive, which enter into and constitute factors in determining they outcome of military and naval contests, and with this object in viewthe invention consists in a combination and relation of vparts and .designations thereof hereinafter fully explained, it being understood that changes in form and-details. may be resorted to within the scope ofthe appended claims, without departing fromthe spirit of the invention.

In the drawings:

Figures l to 15, inclusive, represent cards belonging essentially to what may be termed the army suit as designating corps or bodies of men and equipment which are used more particularly in land operat-ions.

Figs. 16 to 27, inclusive, represent carols which belong or relate more particularly to what may be termed the navy suit or to men and equipment which are usually allotted to or employed in connection with naval operations.

Figs. 28 and 29 represent cards which may arbitrarily be designated as wild or as belonging to or adapted to be used in either suit or in operations occurring either on land or on water.

The cards of the suit, of which any desired number, but preferably a specified and understood number such as one hundred and seventy-two, may be employed, are divided generally into two suits which maybe understood as respectively army and navy suits,'and the units or elements or cards of which are distinguishably designated by reference to corps or bodies of men and articles of equipment I-I. BRED-Y SHAW, a citizen of the United States, residemployed respectively in land and Vnaval op-4 erations.. For example, inthe army suitwill be `found cards designated as infantrymen, cavalryinen, light artillery, heavy artillery, tanks, barbed wire entanglements, poison Patented J an. f7, 1919-.

gas, ga`smasks, .Supply train, ammunition Y train, aeroplane, anti-aircraft gun'and the like, while in the navy suit may be found cards designated, for example, as marines,y troop ship, troop shipdconvoyed by` subma-` rine chasers, supply ship, battleship, torpedo boat, torpedo boat destroyer, Submarine andi the like. Moreover, the several cards of each suit are distinguishably designated noto-nly by the names as above enumerated, and the list of which of course may be extended to any desired degree, but by designations4 of value, preferably located near the centers of the cards and represented in the drawings.. by the numerals l, 2, 3, 4, 5 and so forth.

Theselvalue designating numerals orrchar- Av actersare supposed to represent Vthe comparative values of the bodies ofV menor equipment represented by the corresponding cards when ,usedl Lrespectively 'inland and naval engagements, when, in the course of play, such cards-fall in the same trick or are played in opposition to each other by the several participants in thev game.

Moreover, certain cards, for example, such as those shown in Figs. 28 and 29, may be played in tricks withcards of either suit and for that reason may be termed wild asv above noted, and while belongingforvin-f stance more particularly to the army suit and designed to be used more especiallyin of the navy suit and may have the same value relatively in either suit or may have different values according to whether played in the army suit or the navy suit. The card representing retreat, for example, shown in Fig. 29, may have diiferent values according to whether played during the game or as the last card of the holder, and may also have diderent values according to whether played in the army suit or the navy suit. Also the card designated as marines in Fig. 16 may have a designated and speciiied value such as three when used in its own suit, namely, the navy suit, to Which it properly belongs, but may be used in the army suit and when so used may have either the same or a different value numerically or as to the outcome of the game or as to its neutralizing or taking value in regard to other cards, as may be preferred and as may be specified by the rules under Which the gaine is played.

It is deemed unnecessary to include herein a detailed description of any particular game or series of games Which may be played byA means of cards Adistinguishably designated as indicated as the variety is almost unlimited, but by adopting, as indicated in the drawings, an arbitrary vvalue in pla for the several cards When used in certain sequence or relation and in corresponding suits, and assuming that either the same or different values attach to the playing of such cards if used in the suits to which they belong or in the other suit and Whether used in sequence in a given order, that is either, in advance or following a corresponding or opposing card of the same suit, an unlimited number of combinations may be produced, and at the same time the general values of the articles'or equipments ordinarily foiuid in connection with army and navy forces Will be indicated and impressed upon the minds ofthe participants of the game in such a way as t0 have an educational value.`

Having described the invention, I claim: l. A card gaine having suits of Which the cards are distinguishably designated by reference to corps of men and equipment em,- ployed respectively in land and naval military operations, the cards of eachsuit being distinguished by designations of numerically different bodies of men and relatively important offensive and defensive elements of equipmentin the respective services repre sented by the suits, and having comparatively different values in play.

2. A card game having suits of which the cards are distinguishably designated by reference to corps of men and equipment employed respectively in land and naval operations, the cards of each suit being distinguished by designations of numerically dierent bodies of men and relatively iinportant offensive and defensive elements of equipment in the respective services represented by the suits, and having coinparatively different values in play, the values of certain units beingdeterminable by the sequence in use with reference to other units. 3. A card game having suits of which the cards are distinguishably designated by reference to corps of men and equipment employed respectivelyY in land and naval operations, the cards of each suit being distinguished by designations of numerically different bodies of men and relatively important offensive and defensive elements of equipment in the respective services represented by the suits, and having comparatively difl'erent values in play, and one of the suits including a class of units adapted for interchangeable use With referenceV to the .other units of both suits. Y

4. A card game having` suits of which the cards are distinguishably designated by reference to corps of men and equipment ein- I ployedrespectively inland and naval military operations, the cards of each suit `being distinguished by designations of numerically diiferent bodies of men and relatively important offensive and defensive elements of equipment in the respective services represented by the suits, and having compara tively different values in play, and one of the suits including a class of units adapted for interchangeable use with reference to the other units of both suits and having different values in play determinable by the suit of the unit against which it is used.

In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES H. BRADSHAV.

Witnesses:

CoRA B. ANDERSON, EMARD H. SCHUZENBAKER,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. C. 

